Sentence examples for contradictions of language from inspiring English sources

The ever-changing contradictions of language and of character are at the core of "All's Well," but Daniel Sullivan's well-staged, crowd-pleasing production (at the Delacorte) almost entirely misses them.

Mr. Derrida was known as the father of deconstruction, the method of inquiry that asserted that all writing was full of confusion and contradiction, and that the author's intent could not overcome the inherent contradictions of language itself, robbing texts -- whether literature, history or philosophy -- of truthfulness, absolute meaning and permanence.

The two most surprising responses were 1) 66% of students use MT as a dictionary and 2) 91% have detected an error in MT. Students explain error recognition through three lenses: personal knowledge of language, contradiction in textbook, and contradiction of what was learned in class or taught by the instructor.

All of this could be philosophically interesting as an exploration through contradiction of the languages of painting, with a particular play between Jackson Pollock's ethos of spontaneous authenticity and Andy Warhol's anti-ethos of ironic detachment.

But the language of paradox, oxymoron and subtle contradiction – the language of children – does better.

Unless one is prepared to countenance the almost total pervasiveness of contradictions in natural language, it seems that not all sorites can be sound.

I will suggest that the apparent contradictions and other theoretical inconsistencies in occult concepts of language vanish once we allow for the possibility that they can be allocated to two different kinds of language and to two theories of language.

Tautologies and contradictions, the propositions of logic, are the limits of language and thought, and thereby the limits of the world.

He and some fellow students at the University of Florence had set themselves up as a radical architecture practice called Gruppo UFO the previous year, inspired by studying "the language, semiotics and contradictions of architecture" under Umberto Eco.

The inclusion of translation in the construct of language proficiency has nonetheless brought about an unresolved contradiction between the locality and globality of the CSE.

In the context of the common commercial policy, this leads to some contradictions between the language of the law and actual EU trade policies.